Recipes

Thursday, March 26, 2015

Stuffed Haagalakai / Stuffed Bitter Gourd Palya

Ingredients
  • 3-4 Bitter Gourd
  • 2tbs Oil
  • 1tbs Mustard

Grind below to form a paste and keep it aside
  • Handful of Roasted groundnut
  • 10 garlic cloves
  • 4tbs fresh grated coconut (optional)
  • 1tbs Jeera

Add below ingredients, to paste (above) which is kept aside
  • 2 Finely chopped onions
  • Pinch of haldi
  • 3tbs red chilli powder
  • 1/2tbs Garam Masala
  • 2tbs Jaggrey
  • 2tbs Tamrind paste
  • 3tbs Niger seeds/ Gurellu
  • Salt to taste

Method
Peel the Bitter Gourd little bit and make a slit, remove seeds from inner part. Now Bitter Gourd is ready for stuffing. 

Note: Soak it overnight in salt water to reduce the bitterness.

Mix all the above mentioned ingredients to form filling masala,  take 2-3tbs masala and fill it into slit Bitter Gourd, repeat this for all the pieces.

Heat a kadai, add 2tbs oil & add mustard seeds. Once it starts spluttering add stuffed pieces to kadai. Add a little water, so that Bitter Gourd gets cooked. Cook it for around 30-40mins on low flame with lid closed. Take a spoon and try cutting piece to check if its cooked. 

Ready to server with chapati/ roti/ rice.